Books by Andrea L. Rogers

Chooch Helped

by Andrea L. Rogers

A Cherokee girl introduces her younger brother to their family's traditions — begrudgingly! — in this picture book written by Walter Award-winner Andrea L. Rogers and featuring gorgeous collage illustrations from debut artist Rebecca Lee Kunz.

Sissy’s younger brother, Chooch, isn’t a baby anymore. They just celebrated his second birthday, after all. But no matter what Chooch does — even if he’s messing something up! Which is basically all the time! — their parents say he’s just “helping.” Sissy feels that Chooch can get away with anything!

When Elisi paints a mural, Chooch helps. When Edutsi makes grape dumplings, Chooch helps. When Oginalii gigs for crawdads, Chooch helps. When Sissy tries to make a clay pot, Chooch helps . . .

“Hesdi!” Sissy yells. Quit it! And Chooch bursts into tears. What follows is a tender family moment that will resonate with anyone who has welcomed a new little one to the fold. Chooch Helped is a universal story of an older sibling learning to make space for a new child, told with grace by Andrea L. Rogers and stunning art from Rebecca Lee Kunz showing one Cherokee family practicing their cultural traditions.

Man Made Monsters

by Andrea L. Rogers

Walter Dean Myers Award Winner
International Literacy Association Book Award Winner
Whippoorwhill Award Winner
Reading the West Book Awards Shortlist

BEST OF THE YEAR
Washington Post · Booklist Editors’ Choice · Publishers Weekly · Horn Book · New York Public Library

Tsalagi should never have to live on human blood, but sometimes things just happen to sixteen-year-old girls.

Making her YA debut, Cherokee writer Andrea L. Rogers takes her place as one of the most striking voices of the horror renaissance that has swept the last decade.

Horror fans will get their thrills in this collection — from werewolves to vampires to zombies — all the time-worn horror baddies are there. But so are predators of a distinctly American variety – the horrors of empire, of intimate partner violence, of dispossession. And so too the monsters of Rogers’ imagination, that draw upon long-told Cherokee stories — of Deer Woman, fantastical sea creatures, and more.

Following one extended Cherokee family across the centuries, from the tribe’s homelands in Georgia in the 1830s to World War I, the Vietnam War, our own present, and well into the future, each story delivers a slice of a particular time period that will leave readers longing for more.

Alongside each story, Cherokee artist and language technologist Jeff Edwards delivers haunting illustrations that incorporate Cherokee syllabary.

But don’t just take it from us — award-winning writer of The Only Good Indians and Mongrels Stephen Graham Jones says that "Andrea Rogers writes like the house is on fire and her words are the only thing that can put it out."

Man-Made Monsters is a masterful, heartfelt, haunting collection ripe for crossover appeal — just don’t blame us if you start hearing things that go bump in the night.

P R A I S E

★ “Many of these stories sound as if they were passed down as family histories. It may read like speculative fiction, but it feels like truth.”
—Horn Book (starred)

★ “Stunning collection of short stories follows a Cherokee family through two centuries, beginning with something akin to a vampire attack and ending with zombies.”
—BCCB (starred)

★ “Spine-tingling...A simultaneously frightening and enthralling read.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred)

★ “Chilling… Exquisite… A creepy and artful exploration of a haunting heritage.”
—Kirkus (starred)

★ “Startling…Will leave readers—adults as well as teens—unsettled, feeling like they have caught a glimpse into a larger world.”
—Booklist (starred)

★“Teen and adult readers looking for a taste of the gorgeously gruesome should snap up this dark, engrossing jewel.”
—Shelf-Awareness (starred)

“Dazzling, diverse, often terrifying.”
—Buffalo News

“Sometimes the only way to grapple with a monstrous past is through horror.”
—Minneapolis Star Tribune

“Incredibly grounded and intoxicating. A haunting and stunning book for you to enjoy.”
—Buzzfeed

“A brilliant and expansive journey across time, seen through a Cherokee lens. This collection is full to the brim with voice and breadth, including but not limited to magic, horror, and fantasy. The book is fun, funny, and dead-serious. It is beautifully written, and it is full of monsters.”
—Tommy Orange, Pulitzer Prize finalist author of There, There

“Rogers writes like the house is on fire and her words are the only thing that can put it out.”
—Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author of Mongrels and The Only Good Indian

“Fierce, fantastic, ingeniously Indigenous. Smashes all expectations. I felt my teeth getting sharper with every turn of a page.”
—Cynthia Leitich Smith, New York Times bestselling author and author-curator of Heartdrum

The Art Thieves

by Andrea L. Rogers

TO: Angel Wilson ([email protected])
FROM: Stevie Henry ([email protected])
Thanks for coming to see me; but by the time you read this, it will be too late. No one will have started to panic, yet; but in less than two months nothing will be the same. What came first, The Chicken or the Egg Flu? I wish it mattered. But let’s just say, maybe go back to wearing a mask, bathing in sanitizer, and avoid birds and eggs for a bit…

I did not kill my brother. I did quite the opposite, really.

It’s the year 2052. Stevie Henry is a Cherokee girl working at a museum in Texas, trying to save up enough money to go to college. The world around her is in a cycle of drought and superstorms, ice and fire … but people get by. But it’s about to get a whole lot worse.

When a mysterious boy shows up at Stevie’s museum saying that he’s from the future -- and telling her what is to come -- she refuses to believe him. But soon she will have no choice.

From the author of the Walter Award-winning Man Made Monsters comes a YA novel that conjures our futures in startling life – the ones that we are headed towards, and the ones we can still work towards.

Mary and the Trail of Tears: A Cherokee Removal Survival Story (Girls Survive)

by Andrea L. Rogers

Twelve-year-old Mary and her Cherokee family are forced out of their home in Georgia by U.S. soldiers in May 1838. From the beginning of the forced move, Mary and her family are separated from her father. Facing horrors such as internment, violence, disease, and harsh weather, Mary perseveres and helps keep her family and friends together until they can reach the new Cherokee nation in Indian Territory. Featuring nonfiction support material, a glossary, and reader response questions, this Girls Survive story explores the tragedy of forced removals following the Indian Removal Act of 1830.

Chooch Ayudó (Chooch Helped Spanish Edition)

by Andrea L. Rogers

¡GANADOR DE LA MEDALLA CALDECOTT!



Una niña Cherokee le presenta a su hermano menor las tradiciones de su familia (¡a regañadientes!) en un sincero álbum ilustrado lleno de ilustraciones maravillosas en collage de la ilustradora debutante Rebecca Lee Kunz.



Mejor del año: Kirkus * Cooperative Children''s Book Center



Chooch, el hermano menor de Sissy, ya no es un bebé. Recién cumplió dos años. No importa lo que haga Chooch, incluso cuando desarregla las cosas --¡lo cual pasa todo el tiempo!-- sus padres solo dicen que está "ayudando". A Sissy le parece que nunca hay consecuencias para Chooch.

Cuando Elisi pinta un mural, Chooch ayuda. Cuando Edutsi prepara bolas de masa de uva, Chooch ayuda. Cuando oginalii pesca con lanza los cangrejos de río, Chooch ayuda. Cuando Sissy intenta formar una vasija de barro, Chooch ayuda...



"¡Hlesdi!" le grita Sissy. ¡Ya basta! Y Chooch estalla en lágrimas. Lo que sigue es un momento tierno en familia que resonará con cualquiera que haya tomado bajo el ala a un nuevo crío. Chooch ayudó cuenta la historia de una hermana mayor aprendiendo a aceptar un nuevo hermano, narrado con elegancia por Andrea L. Rogers y con arte en collage extraordinario de Rebecca Lee Kunz, y muestra como una familia Cherokee se inmersa en sus tradiciones culturales.



Best of the Year: Kirkus * Cooperative Children''s Book Center



A Cherokee girl introduces her younger brother to their family''s traditions -- begrudgingly! -- in this Caldecott Medal winning picture book written by Walter Award-winner Andrea L. Rogers and featuring gorgeous collage illustrations from debut artist Rebecca Lee Kunz.



Sissy''s younger brother, Chooch, isn''t a baby anymore. They just celebrated his second birthday, after all. But no matter what Chooch does -- even if he''s messing something up! Which is basically all the time! -- their parents say he''s just "helping." Sissy feels that Chooch can get away with anything!



When Elisi paints a mural, Chooch helps. When Edutsi makes grape dumplings, Chooch helps. When Oginalii gigs for crawdads, Chooch helps. When Sissy tries to make a clay pot, Chooch helps . . .



"Hesdi!" Sissy yells. Quit it! And Chooch bursts into tears. What follows is a tender family moment that will resonate with anyone who has welcomed a new little one to the fold. Chooch Helped is a universal story of an older sibling learning to make space for a new child, told with grace by Andrea L. Rogers and stunning art from Rebecca Lee Kunz showing one Cherokee family practicing their cultural traditions.



P R A I S E



★ "The touching narrative and its universal lesson are brought to life through Kunz''s powerful images, which make stunning use of collage to illustrate the children''s rich familial and cultural webs. Readers'' hearts will be warmed by Sissy and Chooch''s relationship and by the moving representation of Cherokee traditions. Native life and language are at the center of this beautiful sibling story." --Kirkus (starred)



★ "Kunz''s phenomenal illustrations bring a cleverly spare text to being... Gorgeous and heartfelt in its simplicity, this book deserves a spot on the shelf alongside Goade''s Berry Song and Flett''s We All Play." --Bulletin of the Center for Children''s Books (starred)



★ "Tender... powerful." --Publishers Weekly (starred)



""[Chooch Helped] highlights the joys and challenges that many older siblings face as the baby of the family grows up and begins to mimic them. Kunz''s striking mixed-media art complements this loving family story."" --The Horn Book



"The artwork is warm and flushed, almost like a heart pulsing from the warmth of inclusion and support... This recommended story reminds readers how they could lead by example for those who are curious and want to also be included in the joys of life, be it miniscule chores or creating art."" --School Library Journal



"Siblings everywhere will recognize themselves in this universal story of family dynamics... A warm, welcome addition to a growing body of work portraying contemporary Native families celebrating their heritage and living full, multidimensional lives."" --Booklist"

Legendary Frybread Drive-In Intertribal Stories

by Angeline Boulley, Cynthia Leitich Smith, David A. Robertson, Darcie Little Badger, Andrea L. Rogers, Eric Gansworth, Jen Ferguson, K. A. Cobell, Byron Graves, Brian Young, Kate Hart, Marcella Bell, Kaua Mahoe Adams, Karina Iceberg, Christine Hartman Derr, Cheryl Isaacs, A. J. Eversole

Featuring the voices of both new and acclaimed Indigenous writers and edited by bestselling Muscogee author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of interconnected stories serves up laughter, love, Native pride, and the world's best frybread.

The road to Sandy June's Legendary Frybread Drive-In slips through every rez and alongside every urban Native hangout. The menu offers a rotating feast, including traditional eats and tasty snacks. But Sandy June's serves up more than food: it hosts live music, movie nights, unexpected family reunions, love long lost, and love found again.

That big green-and-gold neon sign beckons to teens of every tribal Nation, often when they need it most.

Featuring stories and poems by: Kaua Mahoe Adams, Marcella Bell, Angeline Boulley, K. A. Cobell, A. J. Eversole, Jen Ferguson, Eric Gansworth, Byron Graves, Kate Hart, Christine Hartman Derr, Karina Iceberg, Cheryl Isaacs, Darcie Little Badger, David A. Robertson, Andrea L. Rogers, Cynthia Leitich Smith, and Brian Young.

In partnership with We Need Diverse Books.